The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-25
NEW YoREs MARKETS FOR WIVES.


The -Four Great Matrimonial Mnrt5 Of
the Metropolis.
Philadelphia Press
The four great markets for wives in New
York are the Sunday schools, the big stores
and factories, the street and the boarding
houses, have purpoaely arranged them in
the order above bGCauge the greatest matTi-
JpOnial markets are the Sunday schools and
the least are tie boarding houses. Mar
RIGGS are made in boarding hUuBes, but the
average boarding house keepers daughter il
more apt to end an old maid than a wife.
The reason is that il seems not to be- good for
the gira for men to zee them toe much or i'll
too varied range Of employment. II tattes
the romance and poetry out Of the wife
hunters head and the charm from o girls
personality for her 10 be B6en on her knees
s.rubbing, or WITH her head in q towel
sweeping, or sitting ashes III q HOyenly
wrapper OF course, there are girls who can
do every sort OF AOuBeFuTk with such an air
aud grace that even a lsvel-heEded lover will
try to steal the broom or ashes sitter she has
held IN order 10 have it for Q keepBake, but
those girls are not Bp5 TO be developed in the
dull and cruel grind Of boarding house rou-
tine.
In the Sunday schools the girls look their
very best Not only do thousands Of tender
hearted young fellows attend them IN order
TO develop circle OF lady friends for them
solved. but just 80 do the myriad young
women, who are 65theT here without tAelt
families Or who are shut up in factories all
night, seek the same religious resorts tor
similar ends. II 10 curious function that
New York Sunday schools perform. They
are TpgoTtsd to by about roo Cinnamon, who
20 there simply to learn English. and by
Thousands Of Christians who 90 there 10 get
WbeB I say the big shopping stores are
great Matrimonial markets do not mean TO
have it inferred that the girls who stand be-
hind the counters are given 10 Wedding The
male customers they wait upon buch bLlhEb
do happen, l suppose but rot frequently
enough for O6nB4qerauon' tle L&eL peiihg
That nothing could be worse for counter
girl in big New York store than for her TO
be courted while on duty. II her employers
did not discharge her the other girls would
torment her beyond ENDURANCE Msebhgb
between the girls and their bpRuN on the
way home from work are not to be taken
into confederation, for She lasseB 60 home IN
4roODF, and are InCrCilcgs teEBcTa, 10 that thls
Il also q rare occurrence. One Of the pig
glOppiug stores, by the WY employs detecr
lives to see that no Young fellows hang about
Abe store ut closing time 70 meet lhs counter
girls. But there IL held tor matrlmolY Inab
il directly in the stores, and iS ehceealLtiy
fruitful. The male employees, buyers, heads
of dppgrtTnEutE, men ClCrLr, GQfhpIb' ana
even the members Of the itEuS get very many
wives from among the girls whom thcy meet
every day and grow to admire, II thsI HHH4t-
Ties are such All recommend them. AcIuRlnG,
| gngeB thUR made lead to VslB a. inc EfIS
| homes, 10 evening COmphnlonEhlp, ana W
| wedocR. These same Ron and women ~
! fGe big stores, by the way. are among the
| 6ogts fhpt attend tho Sunday schools.
There are actually streets set aside LoI
cnnrtship by the parlQrleFSa poor Upper
| Eighth avenue, where tile hEUe BhHps le;
| lower SECOND avenue, past the Louses q
lie Old togy rich AND the bottom Of III BF'e 49,
1 va 9firas Az closed and dnrk-there HrJ
| {he great flirtGtion pgomenadeB Of the, tanne
mG1t Logs and girls. There are slpp39 IHflat
| Who sec the long PROFESSIONS OF glBgllpt
piTis N their bet bows and streaguers, auC
| ims1gine them to be of the path Of virtue
Or slipping of. But these are not 5hg PLACE St,
where such Eiris are found, and he WIN
| thinks iii on these girls had better NOT pre-
sumo upon his Ignorance, or hs WI 4, nm,
| them well able to take care 0t themsielSeH
| N0: they have put on thelr second PES
gowns, and the young mechanics and porter
have put on thr beFt coats gnd so nlaaIS6 6y
their locks with oil, and bonn seAe3 w nay ,S
Wink home. They don't know 1t, but the
cannot help doing 10. It's natare.